Swing Hammer Swing!
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SynopsisTam Clay, 1960s Glasgow slum-dweller, father-in-waiting and wordsmith manque, stumbles through the drink-sodden world of the Gorbals underclass on a mini-odyssey of self-discovery. This first novel won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
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Leon A.C. Qualls's story
I was given a copy of ‘Swing Hammer Swing!’ by my tutor, a Liverpudlian, teaching me creative writing on a degree course in Wales. And what was it he was trying to teach a Glaswegian? How to write...
